Archives Online
A series of virtual exhibitions created in-house by the British Jesuit Archives or through Jesuit Collections in collaboration with Stonyhurst College, oral history projects and digitised collections.
Virtual timeline of the Jesuits in England, Scotland, and Wales, created for the 400th anniversary of the English Province of the Society of Jesus in January 2023.
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The timeline charts the early days of English Jesuit martyrs to rapid expansion in the 19th century to development to meet changing needs in more recent years.
It provides both a framework of the Province’s development, allowing the Jesuits’ history to be seen as part of the larger national and international religious, political and social history, while also giving context to individual Jesuit Works.
This online exhibition, inspired by the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the English (later British) Jesuit Province, looks at all the books in the British Jesuit Archive's Antiquarian Book Collection which were published in 1623.
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The thirteen works encompass anti-Protestant controversial writing, devotional literature, Lives of saints, martyrs and holy men, conversion stories and more. As objects, these books retain signs of how they have been owned and cared for over the 4 centuries since they were printed.
This exhibition tells the story of Helena Wintour, who operated at the centre of a recusant network with close ties to Jesuit missionaries. Creating illegal vestments, she was forced to work in secret under threat of exposure. Although her name was tainted by association with the the Gunpowder Plot, she persisted in this dangerous, subversive work, and defiantly embroidered her name on the vestments.
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Her life story is told through a documentary, and Stonyhurst College Curator, Dr Jan Graffius, introduces her 6 surviving vestments in a series of short videos.
British Jesuit Province's Relics of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, this online exhibition examines the faith stories of these remarkable men and women from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is illustrated with images of their relics and other manuscripts and artefacts in the care of the Jesuits in Britain Archives and Stonyhurst College.
Take a trip down memory lane with some of the Jesuits in Britain as they share the stories that have shaped their lives over the years both inside and outside of the Society of Jesus.
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Fr John Luck SJ was a Jesuit priest who served as an army Chaplain to the forces between 1915 and 1919. During this time he wrote letters to his mother and sisters about the various journeys and day to day activities of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Through this correspondence we can gain a unique first-hand perspective of life in the forces during WW1. Find out more about his life and listen to the letters.
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Sketches by First World War chaplain Leslie Walker SJ, with the 19th Division in the north of France, August 1915 to May 1916.
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Digitised by the Jesuits in Britain.
At the end of its first year there were 10 Jesuits serving as military chaplains in the First World War. By the end of 1917, the year that saw the US enter the war and the battle of Passchendaele, this number had risen to over 70. This exhibition showcases the profiles of those first 10 Jesuit chaplains.